Slang says a lot about its time, and some of the funniest phrases from decades past are too good to stay buried. These ...

Croxteth comes from the Old Norse word “Croc” and Old English “staep” - meaning “Croc’s landing place” or “river-bend landing place. It was known as “Crocstad” in 1257 ...

Kelvedon is believed to come from the Old English "cylu" meaning spotted or speckled") and dun meaning hill. When considering Kelvedon’s full name Kelvedon Hatch, hatch is another word for gate making ...

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Such pronunciation overlap, particularly after sound changes deleting final vowels on words became widespread, created ...

‘Words frequently lose their meaning when translated or acquire ... romantic or passionate as you wish it to be, deriving from old English variants which mean ‘to touch lips’.

The boy named Shart was born in Dundee in 1981, according to The Courier. He is the only baby in Scotland to have been called ...

The old English word Sandwich ... some believe it stems from the Indigenous word Tataket, meaning “at the principal tidal stream,” while others think it comes from the tea parties held ...